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Lockdown but Not Shutdown SBS TRANSIT LTD LOCKDOWN BUT NOT NOT BUT SHUTDOWN ANNUAL REPORT 2020 We’ve been busy this entire time ANNUAL REPORT 2020 In a pandemic,“ the health and safety of our commuters and staff takes on new significance. We stepped up the cleaning and disinfection of our buses and trains, bus interchanges and Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) stations“ as well as our depots and offices. LIM JIT POH CHAIRMAN, SBS TRANSIT LTD PG 1 SBS TRANSIT LTD OUR VISION Moving people in a safe, reliable and affordable way. OUR MISSION To achieve excellence for our customers, employees, shareholders and community. To this end, we are committed to delivering safe and reliable services at affordable prices, being an employer of choice, creating significant shareholder value and becoming a socially responsible corporate role model. OUR CORE BELIEFS To achieve our Vision and Mission, we are guided by the following beliefs: We will: • Be driven by our customers’ needs • Strive for excellence in everything we do • Act with integrity at all times • Treat people with fairness and respect • Maintain safety as a top priority • Collaborate with our partners for a win-win outcome • Give our shareholders a reasonable return PG 2 ANNUAL REPORT 2020 CONTENTS 4 Chairman’s Statement 14 Group Financial Highlights 16 The Impact of COVID-19 36 Bits & Bytes 53 Corporate Information 54 Board of Directors 60 Key Management 65 Operations Review 74 Sustainability Report 84 Corporate Governance 104 Directors’ Particulars 108 Risk Management 112 Financial Calendar 113 Financial Statements 114 Directors’ Statement 118 Independent Auditor’s Report 122 Statements of Financial Position 124 Group Income Statement 125 Group Comprehensive Income Statement 126 Statements of Changes in Equity 128 Group Cash Flow Statement 129 Notes to the Financial Statements 173 Share Price Movement Chart 174 Shareholding Statistics 176 Notice of Annual General Meeting 185 Additional Information on Directors Seeking Re-Election Proxy Form PG 3 SBS TRANSIT LTD As a public“ transport operator offering an essential service, we were one of the few companies that continued to operate despite the lockdown. We made changes to the way we delivered our“ services in a new setting. PG 4 ANNUAL REPORT 2020 CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT 2020 was a year unlike any other. The of 2020, the Land Transport Authority COVID-19 virus outbreak caused a global (LTA) reported that average daily ridership pandemic, halting countries in their tracks for buses and trains fell by 34.5% to 5.04 and raising panic in communities the million – marking an 11-year low. world over. Singapore was not spared with our Government describing it as the “crisis The donning of masks outside of the of a generation”. As a public transport home became mandatory. For this operator offering an essential service, purpose, the LTA deployed Transport we were one of the few companies Ambassadors to bus interchanges and that continued to operate despite the MRT Stations. The Transport Ambassadors lockdown. We made changes to the way worked closely with our frontline staff to we delivered our services in a new setting. ensure commuters observed the strict rules. Enforcement was not always easy COVID-19 VIRUS OUTBREAK and there were several instances where In a pandemic, the health and safety of our Bus Captains (BCs) were abused our commuters and staff took on new as they carried out mask enforcement significance. We stepped up the cleaning activities. We did not take this lightly and disinfection of our buses and trains, and put our support fully behind our bus interchanges and Mass Rapid Transit people if they chose to take civil action (MRT) stations as well as our depots against the perpetrators, including and offices. We also piloted the use of engaging lawyers and paying their fees. Electrostatic Disinfectant Spray (EDS) The National Transport Workers’ Union technology on our buses and trains that (NTWU) also initiated a Memorandum of could keep the virus at bay for about six Understanding (MOU) with all the public months. A trial using a protective shield transport operators to provide necessary at the Bus Captain’s cabin was also support, including legal action, to public undertaken. transport workers who were assaulted. We are grateful that the Authorities have also The well-being of our people, both acted swiftly against the abusers. mental and physical, was a key concern as the pandemic raged. We supported When the Malaysian authorities all our frontline employees by providing announced the Movement Control Order them with masks, personal hand and closed the Causeway suddenly in sanitisers, vitamin C tablets, a constant March 2020, we acted quickly to secure supply of fresh fruits and care packs to accommodation for our staff who help them stay healthy and maintain commuted daily between Singapore and morale. Temperature checks were also Johor Bahru. We negotiated with hotels conducted twice a day. In August, our bus for reduced rates and tried our best to employees were tested for the COVID-19 make sure that the sudden move which virus and from January 2021, many of essentially tore them from their families our employees from both the bus and rail back home was as painless as possible. divisions opted to be vaccinated under the Close to 1,800 of them chose to stay on national vaccination programme. in Singapore and their decision helped to keep our public transport services Working with the Authorities, we operating without any disruption. implemented Safe Distancing Measures (SDM) throughout our premises. During I am especially heartened by the the Circuit Breaker (CB) period from 7 overwhelming outpouring of care and April to 1 June 2020, we marked up the support for our frontline staff by the requisite one-metre distance guideline schools and community groups who have on our entire fleet of vehicles too. During taken time and effort to cheer our staff on this period, public transport ridership with care packs and kind words. plunged drastically with our average daily rail ridership dropping by as much as 86% At the national level, we lent our support as working from home became the norm. by operating five dedicated buses (COMET While ridership subsequently picked up in MAXI) that have been specially retrofitted the following months, it still did not rise to facilitate the mass transfer of COVID-19 to its pre-COVID-19 level. For the whole related persons between facilities. At our PG 5 SBS TRANSIT LTD CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT interchanges, we provided free space to the national Emerging Stronger Taskforce, the Temasek Foundation to place vending which has been set up to reignite the machines where Singaporeans and economy. We are involved with residents can collect their free masks. ST Engineering in these two projects. The experience gained will put us in good The Government has been very stead for future tenders in this area. sympathetic and helpful through its various assistance schemes and generous We also joined two consortiums in Supplementary Budgets. In all, the the AV Call for Collaboration (CFC) Government provided $109.8 million announced by the LTA and the Economic worth of aid to SBS Transit mainly through Development Board. the Jobs Support Scheme (JSS) to support staff salaries as we continued to keep our STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS buses and trains in operation in spite of Despite the challenges in the rail business, the reduced ridership. Other operating we continue to see potential in this sector. costs incurred in respect of rental reliefs In this respect, we have signed a Teaming were also provided. Agreement with the RATP Développement S.A., a French Government-owned We also played our part where our senior company and the largest rail operator staff took a 10% pay-cut for five months in Paris, to explore new business while our Board took a proportional 20% opportunities and deliver world-class cut in directors’ fees. metro services in Singapore. The signing was witnessed by the France Minister ELECTRIC BUSES Delegate for Foreign Trade and Economic It was announced in the Singapore Budget Attractiveness, H.E. Mr Franck Riester. 2021 that $30 million would be set aside over the next five years for electric vehicle We also signed an MOU with Thales, (EV)-related initiatives. Measures include a French multinational company that narrowing the cost differential between designs and builds electrical systems and EVs and combustion engine vehicles as provides services for various industries well as proliferating charging points in including transportation, to employ new private premises. I am heartened by this digital technologies to deliver a safer and announcement which will encourage more comfortable passenger journey for the adoption of EVs for a greener our MRT commuters. environment. BUS TENDERS The LTA, which owns all the public buses As reported in my Statement last year, we in Singapore, has committed to buying submitted bids for two parcels – Bulim green buses – with a view to have the Bus Package and the Sembawang-Yishun entire fleet run on cleaner energy by Bus Package – under LTA’s new cluster 2040 as part of the Land Transport system. The objective of this cluster Master Plan. Presently, there are 5,800 tendering was to give smaller operators an public buses where 40 are fully electric opportunity to win and level the playing and 50 are hybrids. Among the public field between large and small operators. bus operators, we run half of the fleet of green buses – 20 electric and 25 hybrids Though we made the lowest bids for both – on a trial basis on behalf of the LTA the individual and combined parcels, we to assess their suitability on Singapore unfortunately lost out. The contracts were roads. awarded to another operator, which had submitted the next lowest combined bid, AUTONOMOUS BUSES with the price difference of $22.0 million Of our two pilot autonomous vehicle or 2.2% over the five-year period.
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